Re: Tape Drive size for Online 5.0

In article <15@ghbassett.win.net> ghbassett@ghbassett.win.net (Greg Bassett) writes: >From: ghbassett@ghbassett.win.net (Greg Bassett) >Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 19:26:54 GMT >Subject: Tape Drive size for Online 5.0 >We would like to use our 5.0 GB tape drive a an Informix Archive >device. We cannot find any documentation that describes a tape >size limit, however on our other machine (both ar RS/6000's) the >Archive program (tbtape) barfs when tapedev is over 2.0 GB. >Has anyone got this working ?? One other idea we had >is to is to use dd to backup the raw disk space. Is this a real >possibility? >Any/all ideas/comments are welcome. The dbexport command limits the value for the -s option to 2 Meg (expressed in Kbytes). However, the 5.0 Administrator's Guide does not offer any limit for the TAPESIZE configuration parameter that I could find in the index.